White House to curb NSA monitoring of some allies' leaders 29 October 2013 It appears that President Obama will soon instruct the NSA to stop eavesdropping on leaders of close U.S.
allies.

Yesterday’s indication by the White House that it moving toward banning the NSA
from eavesdropping on some foreign leaders is a historic change in the
practices of an agency which has enjoyed unlimited and unfettered – and,
it now appears, unsupervised – freedom of action outside the borders of
the United States. The move is similar to, if more complicated than,
the limits imposed on the CIA in the mid-1970s. Security experts note, though, that prohibiting the NSA from eavesdropping on some foreign leaders would be more complicated and potentially more damaging to U.S. interests than the prohibitions imposed on the CIA more than three decades ago.

It now emerges that both the president and Congress’s intelligence committees were kept in the dark about this aspect of the NSA surveillance program, a fact which yesterday has led a staunch supporter of the NSA,
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California), chairperson of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, to issue an unusually – for her — pointed rebuke
of the agency: “I do not believe the United States should be collecting
phone calls or e-mails of friendly presidents and prime ministers.”
Feinstein said, adding that her committee would begin a “major review of
all intelligence collection programs.”

“She believes the committee was not adequately briefed on the details
of these programs, and she’s frustrated,” a committee staff member, who
spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the Times. “In her mind, there were salient omissions.”

The review that Feinstein announced would be “a major undertaking,” the staff member said....

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